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ii.Powers
and Duties of its officers and employees:
Director, Animal
Husbandry, Punjab
He is overall
incharge and Administrative Head of the department.
At the headquarters
he is assisted by four Joint Directors as below :-
1.
Joint Director, Animal
Husbandry, (Animal Health)
He is responsible
for :-
1.
Implementation of plan and non plan schemes related to Animal
Health.
2.
Establishment of Group A officers of the department.
3. Regarding
tour programmes beyond jurisdiction and T.A. bills.
4.
Entire work of SPCA.
5.
Work relating the Kandi area Water Shed Scheme/World Bank
Project.
6.
Work relating to the Awareness Camps.
7.
Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA).
2. Joint
Director, Animal Husbandry -Special Livestock Breeding
Programme(SLBP)
a) Cattle and
buffaloes breeding, Artificial Insemination and Animal production
work.
b) Work
regarding livestock farms and semen banks.
c)
Establishment of veterinary pharmacists.
d)
Implementation of all plan/non plan schemes related to animal
production.
e) Gaushala
development work.
3. Joint
Director, Animal Husbandry-Animal Production (A.P.)
1.
Budget/Planning, Project Formulating and Monitoring. Purchase of
Stores.
2.
Establishment of Group B, C and D employees.
3. To handle
the Assembly Questions of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and work
related to PAC and Vidhan Sabha Committee.
4. To
Co-ordinate the reports/Misc. works to be forwarded by the
department to the Govt.
5. To handle
the Audit paras relating to department.
6. Legal
matters.
4. Joint Director
Animal Husbandry -Regional Disease Diagnostic Lab.-North Zone,
Jalandhar.(RDDL).
He
is responsible for surveillance, diagnosis, monitoring and
control of various animal diseases in the northern states
including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh (U.T.), H.P., J&K, Delhi and
Rajasthan.
5. Joint
Director Animal Husbandry (Fodder)
a.
He will be responsible for formulation and execution of schemes
pertaining to Fodder Section of the Department of Animal
Husbandry, Punjab.
b. All
establishment cases pertaining to the Fodder wing of the Animal
Husbandry Department shall be routed to the Director Animal
Husbandry through him.
c. To assist
the Director, Animal Husbandry in the formulation and execution of
policy matter and implementation of schemes pertaining to the
Fodder Section of the Animal Husbandry Department.
d.
Any other work allotted by the Director, Animal
Husbandry.
Other
Officers at the Headquarter :
I.
Deputy Director, Animal Husbandry
(Poultry Dev.)
a) He is
incharge of the poultry development pogrammes in the state.
b) To conduct
and coordinate poultry breeding and hatcheries operation in the
state.
II. Deputy
Director, Animal Husbandry (Statistics).
a. He is
responsible for overall assessment of Statistical activities of
the Department, including production of livestock and livestock
products, i.e. milk, meat, eggs and wool.
b. Under the
Cattle Development Programme, Deputy Director (Statistics) is
responsible for the collection, compilation and analysis of data
pertaining to cross breeding programme, production of semen,
allotment of bulls to various A.I. Centres and culling of Animals
at the Cattle Breeding Farm. The study of the performance of buff,
bulls under field conditions is under his control.
c. The
department conducts various sample surveys/studies in the State.
Deputy Director (Statistics) is responsible for the Planning and
designing for these surveys/studies. At present sample surveys for
the estimation of production of various livestock products, Fodder
Crops in the State and area under Fodder Crops, estimation of
average milk yield of cross bred cows under field conditions.
d. The
progress made under various plan/non plan schemes, work done by
various veterinary Institutions in the State, preparation of the
Annual Administration Report of the Department, preparation of
Statistical Bulletin. Sire Directory and other publications of the
Department are also responsibilities of the Deputy Director,
(Stat.).
e. Any other
work allotted by the Director, Animal Husbandry.
III. Deputy
Director (Sheep And Wool)
He is responsible for the implementation of the schemes relating
to sheep husbandry in the State and for the extension
activities for sheep rearing .
IV. Assistant
Director (Sheep And Wool)
a. To assist
the Deputy Director Animal Husbandry (Sheep and Wool) in
formulation of schemes in sheep rearing and extension activities
relating to sheep husbandry in the State.
b. He is
nodal officer for scheduling various trainings of the
Department.
c. He is also
General Manager Punjab Poultry Corporation and Deputy Chief
Executive Officer of Punjab Livestock Dev. Board in addition to
his own duties.
V. Poultry
Geneticist
a.
Responsible for poultry breeding in the state.
b. Acting as
nodal officer for pensions
c. Nodal
officer for complaints and Public grievances and Vigilance cases
of the Department.
d. Incharge
of Kisan Call centre for helping and giving technical advice to
the farmers of the state.
e.
Assisting the Director and Joint Director in day to day
technical and official working of the Department.
VI. Agriculture
Development Officer (Feed and Fodder)
To assist the Joint Director Animal Husbandry (Feed and Fodder) at
the Head Quarter for implementing the Feed and Fodder Development
schemes and extension activities in the state.
VII. Assistant
Controller (Finance & Accounts)
To ensure proper
maintenance of accounts and removal of audit objections.
VIII. Statistical
Officer
a.
He assists the Deputy Director (AH Section).
b. To assign
the sample surveys for the estimation of major livestock products
etc.
c. To
analyze the data collected under sample surveys, preparation of
reports etc.
d. To
analyze the data collected from the Govt. Breeding farms/vety.
Institutions and from the field about the breeding efficiency,
and number of cases treated, A.I. performed etc.
e. To
prepare the Annual Administration report and other repots under
the guidance of Deputy Director (AH Section).
f. To
assist in the day to day administration.
Superintendents
Supdt. is the incharge of his section. All the official files are
routed through him. After scrutinizing the files, as per his
satisfaction and after correcting the case, sends to the higher
officers. Marks the daily dak to the concerned dealing hand.
Also keeps record of urgent cases with him in order to maintain
the official record in a proper form, guides the subordinate
officials working under him in his branch.
Section Officer
To assist the
Assistant Controller (F&A) in accounts and audit matters and to
conduct the internal audit of the department.
Deputy Director,
Animal Husbandry (Distt. Level)
1.
He is overall incharge of the livestock development, breeding
activities, health care and other misc. jobs in their respective
districts.
2. He is
Drawing and Disbursing Officer of the schemes/programmes in his
district.
3. To direct
,supervise and organize the cattle breeding operations in various
A.I./Breeding centres in their area.
4. To submit
various reports and returns in regard to physical/financial
achievements to the Director, Animal Husbandry,regularly.
Senior
Veterinary Officers:
1.
They will supervise working of Veterinary
Hospitals/Dispensaries and AI centres/units in the sub divisions.
2. They will
supervise the working of cattle development programmes in the sub
division.
3. They will
act as representatives of the department with other departments at
sub divisional level.
4. They will
assist project officers at director level in such matters as may
be specifically entrusted.
5. They will
provide technical assistance and advice to the Vety.staff in sub
divisions.
6. They will
arrange supply of medicines and instruments to the Vety.Hospitals/dispensaries/AI
centres in the sub division.
7. They will
sanction casual leave to the staff at Vety.Hospitals/dispensaries/AI
centres in the sub division.
8. They
will initiate Annual Confidential Reports of the staff working in
Vety.Hospitals/Dispensaries/centres/units at sub divisional level.
9. They will
be incharge of the Vety. Hospitals at the the sub-divisional
headquarters .
10. They will
also perform major and minor operations like caessarian
operations, Dystokia, castration, prolapse, Hernia etc.
11. They will
also be responsible for conducting laboratory examinations of the
blood, stool and urine samples of cases suffering from obscure
diseases.
Veterinary Officers:
1.
Diagnose, prescribe
and treat the indoor and outdoor cases in the veterinary
hospital.
2. Ante and
postmortem examination of livestock .
3. Control of
contagious diseases amongst livestock .
4. Castration
of male livestock.
5. Inspection
of gaushalas.
6. Publicity,
propaganda and extension work relating to livestock breeding,
feeding and management practices.
7. Artificial
insemination in cattle and buffaloes.
8.
Implementation of the beneficiaries oriented and other schemes of
the department.
9. Recording
of outdoor and AI cases and overall control of stock and stores.
10. To ensure
maintenance of Hospital record and submission of reports.
11.
Regular/periodic visit and supervision of the dispensaries under
his control for giving advice and attending to cases of serious
nature in their jurisdiction.
12. Management
of livestock farms.
13. Management
of Frozen Semen Banks/Artificial Insemination Centres.
14. Issuing of
Health Certification and P.M. Certifications.
15. Issuing of
Export permits.
16. Dealing in
Vetro- legal cases.
17. Any other
duties assigned by the competent authorities.
Veterinary
Inspector:
1.
To keep the
Hospitals equipment neat and clean.
2.
Compounding and dispensing of medicines.
3. Dressing
wounds and bandaging.
4. To handle
animals and administer medicines.
5. Treatment
of minor and simple ailments in animals.
6. Rendering
assistance to the Veterinary Officers, Incharge of the
hospitals/dispensaries in performing major operations.
7. To help
Veterinary Officers in maintaining the record of the hospitals.
8. To perform
Artificial Insemination in the buffaloes/cows.
9. To follow
up A.I. cases.
10. To
vaccinate the animals of the area to prevent the spread of any
outbreak/disease.
11. To register
the cattle of the area.
12. To maintain
the official records of the dispensaries/ A.I. centres including
medicines etc.
13. To assist
the Veterinary Officers in various development
activities/schemes. |
